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Cyberscience 2.0: Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks

Cyberscience 2.0: Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks

by Michael Nentwich, René König
Cyberscience 2.0: Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks

Cyberscience 2.0: Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks

by Michael Nentwich, René König

Overview

At the start of the twenty-first century, the Internet was already perceived to have fundamentally changed the landscape for research. With its opportunities for digital networking, novel publication schemes, and new communication formats, the web was a game-changer for how research was done as well as what came after—the dissemination and discussion of results. Addressing the seismic shifts of the past ten years, Cyberscience 2.0 examines the consequences of the arrival of social media and the increasing dominance of big Internet players, such as Google, for science and research, particularly in the realms of organization and communication.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783593395180
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Publication date: 06/15/2012
Series: Interaktiva
Pages: 237
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael Nentwich is the director of the Institute for Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the author of Cyberscience: Research in the Age of the Internet. René König is a sociologist at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis of the Karlsruher Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction
    1.1 Cyberscience 1.0 Revisited
    1.2 Web 2.0 and Cyberscience
    1.3 Conceptual Framework and Methods
2. Case Studies
    2.1 Social Network Sites
    2.2 Microblogging
    2.3 Collaborative Knowledge Production—The Case of Wikimedia
    2.4 Virtual Worlds—The Case of Second Life
    2.5 Search Engines—The Case of Google
3. Cross-Cutting Analysis
    3.1 Interactivity as a Crucial Category
    3.2 New Windows in the Ivory Tower
    3.3 Academic Quality and Digital Social Networks
    3.4 Information Overload or Information Paradise?
    3.5 Between Transparency and Privacy
    3.6 Towards Democratization of Science?
4. Overall Conclusions and Outlook
    4.1 Maturing Cyberscience
    4.2 The Cyberscience 2.0 Prospects
    4.3 An Ambivalent Overall Assessment

Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
Bibliography
Index
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